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Rock Ruminations

"The Rock" - Newfoundland's nickname, attributed to the granite and rocky landcapes which wrap around coastlines of the province. It is an affectionate term towards Newfoundland, and highlights the significance of environment. Ruminations - the act of pondering; meditation.

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Snow that Fell in Toronto During Our Visit

Okay, so Lisa and I are current vacationing in Toronto - I guess you could call it a vacation, as we came back to Canada to renew Lisa's visa and are staying with and visiting friends and family.

Having said that, I spent most of Thursday looking at and evaluating rationales for students who have applied for the Social Studies Education program. Then I spent most of Friday meeting with a group involved with a mathematics tutoring organization that a friend of mine is currently the Executive Director for, to see how I could help them with their current evaluation, their grant writing strategies, and their publication potential. I am back with them again on Tuesday afternoon to see this mathematics curriculum and tutoring in action. I may have more to say about that after Tuesday on my academic blog (i.e., Breaking into the Academy).

I have also taken a bunch of other writing with me and I'm not sure how much of what of it I will get to... I guess that will determine how much of a vacation this will be.

In terms of actual vacationing, yesterday, today and tomorrow look like the best opportunities. I spent yesterday (and the previous evening for that matter) visiting with two of my cousins in the area and their children (both about two years old - their children that is).

Today Lisa and I are going down to the Art Gallery of Ontario to see the new Catherine the Great exhibit that is currently there, and probably some of the Group of Seven work as well. Then tomorrow we are going to spend a leisurely day in the downtown before meeting my best friend for supper. So, hopefully this will let me relax a bit.

I should note that the second day that we were here, we had about 20cms of snow fall in a 24 hour period (that's 8 inches for you American readers). Here are a couple of pictures that others took of this newly fallen snow (I hope to get some pictures of it today - and if I do I will post those as well). If you click on each of these two pictures, you'll see where I found them and you can link back to the original photographer's area in Flickr.

Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, photos, Flickr, snow, Toronto

posted by MKB | 9:54 AM | |

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